The Story of SAGE Recommends

www.sagepublishing.com Suggested Citation: Maloney, A. (2016). The story of SAGE Recommends (White paper). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishing. doi: 10.4135/wp160129.2. Retrieved from https://us.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/ SAGERecStory.pdf As a publisher of academic content that ranges from journal articles to numerical data to educational videos, covering subjects from theology to robotics, SAGE Publishing has always been interested in helping users to discover scholarly resources and connect concepts in new and innovative ways. In our 2016 discoverability white paper, Expecting the Unexpected (https://us.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/SerrDiscovery.pdf), we share research findings into serendipitous information seeking and explore potential solutions from publishers and librarians that support unplanned instances of scholarly discovery, such as contentand context-driven recommendations. In our research, we found that students and faculty are inclined to seek out content that they are comfortable with, for example, books and journals, without necessarily being aware of where to find other potentially useful sources of information—despite the fact that they state they would make use of a diverse range of formats (see Figure 1).